Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Acacia prainii Maiden , legitimate , scientific
Maiden, J.H. (1917) , Notes on Acacia, No. III. — extra-tropical Western Australia (including descriptions of new species). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51
238
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Southern Cross (J.H.M., October, 1909)."
Black, J.M. (1924) , Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2
282-283, pl. 27
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
Maslin, B.R. (22 December 1980) , Acacia (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae): A contribution to the flora of central Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 2(4)
316
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
"Southern Cross, Western Australia, October 1909, J.H.Maiden s.n., (NSW– the longer of the two specimens on the sheet; iso-lectotype – K, NSW)"
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia dentifera var. parvifolia S.Moore legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia
131, Fig. 158M
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
common name:
Prain's wattle
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2
88
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26
50
[secondary reference]
Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001) , Flora of Australia 11A
391, Fig. 43Q-U, Map 233
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prainii var. linearis Maiden legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia dentifera var. parvifolia S.Moore legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
common name:
Prain's Wattle [n/a]
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001) , Wattle - Acacias of Australia
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[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (3 December 2003) , A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3)
481
[basionym]
basionym of:
Racosperma prainii (Pedley legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Acacia prainii Maiden var. prainii legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma prainii (Pedley legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prainii var. linearis Maiden legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia dentifera var. parvifolia S.Moore legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia prolifera J.M.Black legitimate
APC Comment:
Hybrids between A. hemiteles and A. prainii are known (Maslin, 2001), who also discussed variation within A. prainii.
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA
